Writing Skills for Community-Based Justice Administrators (From Self-Sufficiency in Northern Justice Issues, P 389-412, 1992, Curt Taylor Griffiths, ed. -- See NCJ-141302)

• NCJ Number: 141319
• Author(s): T Grieve
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 24 pages
• Sale Source: Northern Justice Soc
• Publication Type: Training (Aid/Material)
• Language: English
• Country: Canada
• Note: From a workshop at the fifth meeting of the Northern Justice Society held in Sitka, Alaska, April 1991.

Annotation

Based on research on how to write more effectively and expeditiously, this paper explains a new method for writing reports, grant applications, letters, or even memos.

Abstract

A discussion of the writing process focuses on pre- writing or invention, drafting, and revising. The pre- writing or invention stage involves the development of ideas and may involve talking to others, brainstorming in a group, jotting down ideas, doing research, and obtaining data and information from files. Drafting consists of the preparation of a rough report that presents ideas and information in a logical progression, so as to provide an objective product suitable for initial critique and modification. Revision involves making the changes necessary to fashion the report or proposal into final form. This paper then discusses the five "W's"; these are questions to be answered throughout the writing process. They pertain to audience bias, audience prejudices about the project at issue, the cost, whether cost is the primary bias, and the amount of the funds that will be used to meet community needs. Other sections of this paper discuss the purpose and occasion for the report, the nature of "freewriting," and the structure of a proposal.